# UOM Best Practice for Sheets

**URL:** <https://www.epiusers.help/t/uom-best-practice-for-sheets/136508>\
**Category:** Kinetic ERP\
**Tags:** kinetic, uom\
**Created:** [July 27, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/uom-best-practice-for-sheets/136508 "2026-07-27T15:25:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/uom-best-practice-for-sheets/136508/15 "2026-07-28T20:05:57Z")

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We implemented AUOM at go-live for steel plate. The idea was to engineer and issue in any LxW dimension, order in pcs of common full sheet dimensions, and cost by LB.

There are pros and cons with any approach with it but we like how we setup in many ways.

Biggest critisism is the lack of documentation. The examples in simple help files are poor, imo.

> [@Wanted: AUOM Tech Ref Guide?](https://www.epiusers.help/t/wanted-auom-tech-ref-guide/122844/12):
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> Yeah we went live Monday so I hope it’s right. :wink:The biggest difficulty was the lack of documentation for common scenarios like sheet metal. I gather most customers pay for epicor consultants to do it for them. Our use case was the sheet metal example pretty much as above and long-form material like structural steel and pipe. For the latter we just want to use in inches and order in common lengths like 16ft, 20ft. Easy. The idea on plate is to engineer and issue in any LxW dimension, order i…

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